Martyrs’ memorial
A newly-decorated chapel at Westminster Cathedral commemorating 40 English and Welsh Catholic martyrs was due to be dedicated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols yesterday (28 October).

The design, by artist Tom Phillips, shows the names of those martyred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries emblazoned in a mosaic across a dark sky in the chapel vault. A depiction of the Tyburn gallows in marble on the west wall recalls their suffering.

The wall shows the gibbet at Tyburn. As visitors face it, they look directly towards the site of Tyburn, two miles away at Marble Arch.